On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 4:24 AM, J. Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 29.02.08 11:44, J. Peng wrote: > > > I talk nothing about cache. > > > if mod_deflate didn't compress a file, why it still send a Vary header? > > > This is what I'm always talking about. > > > > you were advised to read HTTP specificationm (rfc 2616), did you? > > > > Hmm! did you see my questions again? > I was saying if mod_deflate didn't compress a file, it shouldn't send > a Vary header. > Don't tell me the so called standard, why mod_deflate always send a > Vary header when it doesn't compress that file?
Because the response to requests for this same resource can change based on the incoming Accept-Encoding header, and the Vary header is the way this is communicated. It's like flipping a coin and deciding the result doesn't vary when it comes up "heads", but it does vary when it comes up "tails" -- Eric Covener [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
